01/07/2014

“To know that one does not write for the
other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be
loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for
nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this
is the beginning of writing.”

and

“I encounter millions of bodies in my life;
of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love
only one.”